Clark County Bar Association: 2025 Fentanyl Awareness Summit

Description

Please join the Department of Health & Human Services, the Clark County Bar Association, the High Impact Drug Trafficking Area program (HIDTA), local governments, community leaders and law enforcement agencies to:

• Learn updates on drug market trends
• Explain the increasing danger of evolving synthetic chemical supplies and resistance to overdose reversal medications
• Discuss why addiction rates and overdose rates continue to skyrocket
• Emphasize the need to focus on supply reduction to combat the opioid and overdose crisis
• Explain the impact of multiple overdoses and doctors’ difficulty to cope with the increasing number of patients facing irreversible brain damage and long term health issues
• Highlight model programs to improve how the criminal justice system interacts with people with substance use disorders and mental illness
• Highlight ways to protect communities from the appeal of illicit substance experimentation
• Showcase the role of youth, peer-to-peer outreach in social media and drug use prevention marketing

Featuring: Moderated discussion with Kelly Marschall. Discussion will be led by Kelly Marschall, Principal of Social Entrepreneurs, and will focus on the sequential intercept model which details how individuals with mental and substance use disorders come into contact with and move through the criminal justice system. The panel will include national and local judges, detention center leaders, and mental health experts to discuss best practices, existing programs, innovations, and opportunities for collaboration among various community stakeholders, including law enforcement, social services, the provision of legal services, alternative court proceedings, and post-conviction alternatives.

Please register by 02/05/2025